128 ^fisceUaneous. 



The names fuscoatra, nigrescens, hrunnea, r/ro'ca, and alpina (the 

 last two cited as a dealer's catalogue names for specimens of 

 hrunnea) all refer to the common bright red squirrel of Central 

 Europe, which I described, in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History' for November 1907, as Sciurus vulgaris rittilans. The 

 full synonymy of this form, so far as at present known, will be as 

 follows : — 



Sciurus vulgaris fuscoater. Ahum. 



1804. Sciurus vulgaris, var. cinerea, Hermauu, Observ. Zool. p. 6o, 



Not Sciurus cinereus^ Linnseus, 1766. 

 1876. ^Sciurus vulgaris^ var. fuscoatra, Altiun, Forstzoologie, 2ud eil. 



i. p. 75. 

 1876. [^Seiurus vulgaris] var. nigrescens, Altum, Forstzoologie, 2iid ed. 



i. p. 75. 

 1876. \^Sciurus vulgaris] var. brunnea, Altum, Forstzoologie, 2ud ed. 



i. p. 75. 

 1876. [Sciurus vulgaris] grceea, Altum, Forstzoologie, 2nd ed. i. 



p. 75. 

 1876. [Sciurus vulgaris] alpina, Altum, Forstzoologie, 2nd ed. i. p. 75. 



Not Sciurus alpinus, F. Cuvier, 1842. 

 1899. Sciurus vulgaris rufus, Barrett- Hamilton, P. Z, S. p. 5. Not of 



Kerr, 1792. 

 1907. Sciurus vulgaris rutilans, Miller, Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7th ser, 



XX. p. 426 (November, 1907). 



The name quadrieolor is based on a peculiar geographical form, 

 specimens of which from Poland are in the British Museum 

 collection. These have been referred by Mr. Barrett-Hamilton to 

 the Sciurus vulgaris varius of Kerr. It seems probable that the 

 Polish East Prussian animal may prove to be distinct from true 

 varius of Northern Scandinavia, in which event Altum 's name would 

 be available for it. 



The name cinerea is antedated by the Sciurus cinereus of Linnaeus 

 and the S. vulgaris cinereus of Hermann. It should be placed in 

 the synonymy of *S. vulgaris argenteus, Kerr. 



The status" of Altum's atrocinerea cannot be satisfactorily deter- 

 mined until the identity of the squirrel whose skins are brought by 

 the Siberian fur trade from the " most extreme East " is definitely 

 known. This animal has recently * been referred to Sciui-us 

 vulgaris calotus (Hodgson), in the synonymy of which atrocinerea 

 may for the present remain. 



* Barrett-Hamilton, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 6 ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat, 

 Hist. xix. p. 134 (March 31, 1903). 



